St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-09-10
LABOR NOTES,
Items of Interest Happening In the In
dustrial World.

dustrial World
Nearly 800 looms are standing id,r at this
time in Lowell, Mass, for want Of opera
tiyes. Throughout most of the leading tex
tile manufacturing centres Of New England
the same complaint is made. The cause is
the vacation To Canada which the well-paid
operatives are able to take each summer
They are absent from two to six weeks.
English engineers throw fine film Of dry
sand under the drivers Of their engines To
prevent slipping. 1t is being introduced
here, and an engine is being made at Boston
with single pair of drivers and with the
! sand-blast attachment. 1t has been salu
that it can be made to run remarkably fast.
| The German system for pensoning work
! men in their old age will cause a tax i lA"ce
marks per year on all, estimated al 1.237 900
marks This will give state credit Of about
% OV0O 600 marks. WOrkmcn over fly '"tr9
of age when the bill shall have passed "lli be
excluded.
Corrugated sheet-iron casks are u~s' IN
Germany to transport liquids which expand
! by heat. They stand an internal pressure OF
thirty pounds to the square inch and are
great saving all around to manufacturers,
storckcepers and consumers.
A branch of the Hotchkiss Company is to
be located at Hartford, Conn. Over 5000 Of
the HOtchkiss guns have been made and sold
to all countries One man can discharge
twenty-three six-pound shells per minute
with a six-pound gun.
The Sheffield steelmakers have just secured
5000, 900 worth of contracts from the British
government for steel plates, and expect more,
although the Woolwch yards are being
greatly extended for steelmaking purposes.
A large body Of cOking coal has been found
in Indiana, and capital has been literally
subscribed to develop it. Western mills and
fOundres within year or two will be largely
supplied with coke made from Western coal.
A Lawrence Mass, machine company has
a contract to make four pumps, each OF
which will pump $1,000 gallons per minute,
or 1900 gallons per minute in all, equal to
60O6 tons of water per day.
Horace Abbott, who recently died at Bal
timore at the age of eightyone, filled an Or
der from the government for $50, OU pounds
of iron within forty-eight hours after re-
ceiving it.
The Philadelphia Natural Gas Company of
Pittsburg, Pa, has a capital of $500 ,VtD,
controls 66,3l8 acres, and has eighty-six pro-
ducing wells.
Over 600 hides were used to make belt
for Fall River concern. 1t is fosr feet wide,
three thicknesses, 103 feet long and weighs
1900 pounds.
The Kokomo Natural Gas Company is
producing 100000 cubic feet yearly out
Of four wells, and is about to drill for two
more
One thousand coke ovens will soon be
built in the Connellsville region and also
400 tenements to accommodate 1000 work
men.
The average Pullman car costs SIS .OO0-
The dearest ever built cost $40 900. The Pull
man Company employs 1900 persons.
The locomotive works at Rome. y Y,
have to be run day and night in order to-
turn out thirteen engines per month.
European iron girders delivered in Eng
land have been advanced 81 50 per ton on
account of the heavy demand.
A Dover, n. H. manufacturer has just
shipped large consignment OF leather belt
ing to Melbourne, Australia
A St. Lonis company, with 100000 capt.
tai has been formed to make pavingblocks
out of blast furnace Stag.
A Southington, Conn, firm is making
machinery to be sent to England to make
the Bartholdi burner.
A goodly number of cotton operatives are
going from Lancashire England, to New
England and Canada.
A New York electric light company is
shipping big arc and ncandescent plant to
La Paz, Bolivia.